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The BJP government has been reluctant to give power to the Dhangars, from political representation to financial provision.
A woman's cultural capital should not be determined by patriarchy, as the challenges in every individual's life are unique. To do so is akin to projecting someone else's identity onto oneself.
Ambedkar went to Columbia University in 1913 to start a doctoral program in political science. He graduated in 1915 with a master’s degree and got his doctorate in 1927 after studying with some of the greatest figures of interwar American thought like John Dewey.
Even animals had the right to drink water from Chawdar Tank but "untouchable" humans could not drink water from this water body.
Ambedkar’s radical critique of caste, Brahmanism, and social hierarchy challenges dominant narratives, making his work inconvenient to comfortably accommodate within traditional academic frameworks.
In a staggering window of just 18 days, the bill was rushed through the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and received presidential assent, becoming India’s new law while disregarding the human rights of the transgender community.
Ambedkar consistently advocated for the dignity and safety of sanitation workers, one of the most vulnerable sections of society. Even today, sewer and septic tank deaths continue to be reported, reflecting ongoing gaps in occupational safety and social justice.
Jaipur’s pink walls are still standing and breathing, but are gasping under the weight of unchecked development and weak governance.
The Supreme Court's composition between 1950 and 1989 demonstrated, the bench has historically been drawn almost entirely from upper-caste, male professional backgrounds, and the collegium system, by selecting from within the same professional and social networks that produced it, has proved ill-equipped to disrupt this pattern on its own initiative.
A dataset that does not fully capture the diversity of Indian society risks limiting the effectiveness of governance.
If arranged marriage continues to centre caste as a basic requirement, it is worth asking what exactly we are preserving and at whose cost.
In 1927, Dr. BR Ambedkar led the Mahad Satyagraha in a revolutionary attempt to enable Dalits to access water from a public well despite strong resistance from upper caste groups.
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